Need Help! Cake Board Under Bottom Layer?
Decorating By katie11 Updated 22 Aug 2008 , 10:56pm by indydebi
Do you use a cake board under your bottom layer? I tried this with my last cake and it made it easier to move the cake from the decorating surface to the display surface, but I felt like it made the cake harder to cut / serve and my bottom border fell off when serving.
I am a cake moron so any help is greatly appreciated.
katie, i know what you mean!
if i am making a 6" round cake, i like to stick a 6" waxpaper circle and a 6" round cakeboard to the bottom of the cake...it makes it so much easier to move the cake.
the problem for me usually arises with the borders because when i cut a slice, the border is below the actual bottom of the cake.
i hope that someone can tell us how to fix this.
Make the cake board slightly smaller than the cake. Then the border will be applied to the cake, not the board.
I always put a board under every cake tier.
I find that because the borders are usually applied after the icing has crusted, they fall off anyway.
Losing the border is just a fact of cutting & serving the cake--it's no big deal.
Rae
I always put a board under every cake tier.
I find that because the borders are usually applied after the icing has crusted, they fall off anyway.
Losing the border is just a fact of cutting & serving the cake--it's no big deal.
Rae
Ditto.
The primary reasons I put a board under my bottom tier is (1) I don't want the knife actually cutting right on my silver plateau or my other more costly stands (2) if there is any cake leftover, I can remove the leftover cake by removing the board and take my plateau back with me. If the cake was right on the stand, I couldn't really remove the leftovers to get my stand.
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